New Lectures in History (300-0-24)

Topic

Black Women's History: Slavery and Freedom in the

Instructors

Leslie M. Harris
847/491-3153
Harris Hall - Room 340

Meeting Info

Harris Hall L28: Mon, Wed 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course will examine the lives of African American women between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Topics to be addressed include labor; family and community relationships; sexuality and intimacy; and political activism: free black women in the anti-slavery movement and enslaved women's resistance to enslavement. By the end of the course, students will have learned about the life experiences of women of African descent in the nineteenth-century U.S.; and will have gained an understanding of how historians write history using primary and secondary sources.

Learning Objectives

Observe: • cultivate curiosity • seek encounters with the world, both on campus and beyond. Reflect: • a consciousness and understanding of their place in the world that is both historical and global • an understanding that one's perspective is the product of interconnected webs of people, ideas, and events. Express: • articulate their ideas in oral, written, visual, digital, and other media • assemble narratives, explanations, data, and arguments that navigate carefully ordered evidence.

Evaluation Method

Attendance: 30%: including attending lectures and discussion sections; and weekly responses on Canvas. Participation: 30%: 2 Presentations in section. Writing Assignments: 40%. Primary Source Analysis, 20%. Final Paper, 20%.

Class Notes

History Major Concentration(s): Americas

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Foundational Discipline
Historical Studies Distro Area

Associated Classes

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